No Fault of Hers in Suburban Gossip
A humorous Chicago News quip highlights Mrs. Flatleigh asking why a girl was not kept and Mrs. Suburbs replying that many are hired but refuse to stay, reflecting domestic hiring annoyances in city life.
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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1904
Page
2
A humorous Chicago News quip highlights Mrs. Flatleigh asking why a girl was not kept and Mrs. Suburbs replying that many are hired but refuse to stay, reflecting domestic hiring annoyances in city life.
A quick test with Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure reports pain relief after ten tablet doses. The ad promotes 25 doses for 25 cents and lists Wor Drug Co in La Crosse as the seller.
A short humorous note contrasts the proverb about sowing and reaping with a quip about amateur gardening. It presents a light reflection on effort and outcomes in cultivation.
Miss Alice M. Smith of Minneapolis recounts relief from monthly suffering after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter cites two years of pain ended after a few bottles and notes ongoing use during fatigue.
In a Hudsonite town note the writer describes a household bedeviled by a current wave of colds and influenza like symptoms. Mrs Schaber and her daughters suffer severely while the writer and wife care for their children through sleepless nights. Viola the youngest, age three, nearly faces pneumonia as doctors and parents strive to keep fever down and the child rested. The piece reflects on parental love and the debt owed to one's own parents.
A Chicago brokerage senior partner abroad sends a cryptic cable that defies the firm code. After hours of deciphering, the junior partner reveals the message was a joke about pancakes in Norway, not a business code, ending the suspense.
A Solovetski Monastery on a remote archipelago near Archangel Russia operates as a self sufficient community. Monks rule the island, build roads churches and a dockyard, farm and manufacture goods, and run a steamer for pilgrims while providing free lodging and meals. The monks contrast with other Greek Orthodox monks as industrious.
James Stillman, director of the National City Bank of New York commonly tied to the Standard Oil bank, serves on fifty two corporate boards. A Torino library fire destroyed five four hundred valued Greek manuscripts and twelve hundred Latin works including items by Pliny and Cicero.
Washington Senator Foster reports a Macedonian cry for help from Alaska where huge bears threaten sheep herds near Kodiak. A Seattle packer letters claim 503 bears killed to date and seek a $5 bounty to curb the bears. Foster considers remedies to aid constituents facing losses.
Edmund Russell describes the Indian widow as a revered holy being who remains faithful to marriage beyond death. She acts as community mother, storyteller, nurse, and teacher, guiding sacred rites and comforting the ill while embodying an eternal bond to her husband across births and deaths.
The poem expresses a longing to linger in a fading sunset moment of love. Paul Hamilton Hayne voices tenderness, fear of parting, and questions about fate as lovers face death and possible separation in unknown realms. The refrain repeats the desire to pause, cherish, and hold fast despite looming parting.
The Friends of the Glory of the Seas dispute the Optima being credited with the San Francisco to Newcastle passage in thirty-seven days. They cite 1871 Glory of the Seas at thirty-five days as the true record and note other vessels Swallow Elwood Cooper and Alphabad at thirty-nine days. The Optima is said to hold second place behind the 1871 Glory of the Seas.
The 1903 US production of electrical apparatus and machines, used in electric plants and works, reached about $234,500,000, reflecting strong industrial activity in the sector.
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